Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.comwww.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook Over 160 highly effective and practical recipes to help beginning and intermediate users get the most from Avid Media Composer 6 editing Benjamin Hershleder BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook Copyright © 2012 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. 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ISBN 978-1-84969-300-4 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Benjamin Hershleder ([email protected]) www.ebook777.comwww.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Credits Author Project Coordinator Benjamin Hershleder Michelle Quadros Reviewers Proofreaders Oliver Peters Jonathan Todd Michael Phillips Lauren Tobon Roger Shufflebottom Indexers Acquisition Editor Hemangini Bari Kartikey Pandey Rekha Nair Tejal Soni Lead Technical Editor Sweny M. Sukumaran Production Coordinator Nitesh Thakur Technical Editors Kaustubh S. Mayekar Cover Work Devdutt Kulkarni Nitesh Thakur Copy Editor Insiya Morbiwala www.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com About the Author Benjamin Hershleder (Hershleder.com) currently freelances as an Avid Editor and Director. He has been teaching Avid Media Composer since 1995, and became an Avid Certified Instructor in 1997. He teaches as an adjunct professor at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, at Avid Authorized Training Partner institutions, and also provides private, customized training to individuals and facilities. Hershleder is an award-winning Producer-Director and accomplished Editor. He has produced and/or directed a variety of projects for such companies as Shapiro/West, The Spark Factory, and Old Fashioned Pictures. This work includes co-writing and directing the award-winning (including an Emmy and the Gold Ebenseer Bear) short film "Paul McCall" and directing and editing the Telly award-winning documentary "The Bronx Boys – Hosted by Carl Reiner", which aired on PBS and as part of the Cinemax anthology series "Reel Life". Benjamin is currently completing the follow-up to this film. It is again hosted by Carl Reiner and is titled "The Bronx Boys – Still Playing At 80". His other credits include developing, producing, and directing the pilot of "Spoilers" (not to be confused with Kevin Smith's new production of the same name), serving as a Consulting Producer on comedian Andy Kindler's concert film "I Wish I Was Bitter", and editing Paramount Studios' "The Original Latin Kings Comedy" (George Lopez, Paul Rodriguez, Cheech Marin). His background in post-production also includes editing the indie-feature film "Hollywood Capri", two years as an editor for E! Entertainment Television, and editing an hour-long pilot episode of "In Search Of…" for Fox. www.ebook777.comwww.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Acknowledgement I would like to thank Michael Phillips, Oliver Peters, and Roger Shufflebottom, who were Technical Reviewers on this book. I would also like to thank Andrew Balis, Steve Bayes, George Bellias, Christie Carr, Bryan Castle, Cecil Daniels III, Ron Diamond, Ron Friedman, Nini Hadjis, Doug Hansel, Alex Hepburn, Jim Hershleder, Stan Hershleder, Robert Jones, Tamera Martin, Mike McNulty, Patty Montesion, Eric Naughton, Paul Petschek, Tom Quick, Katie Riccio, Leah Riccio, Samantha Riccio, Tom Riccio, R. Bandit Rivera, George Rizkallah, Larry Rubin, Ben Rock, Carolyn Rae Schultz, Jeff Sengpiehl, Wes Sewell, Greg Staten, Alan Stewart, Todd Smelser, Tracy Smith, Paul Stephan, Rik Swartzwelder, Jim Turner, and Paul Valdez. Thanks to all those with the willingness and patience to teach me throughout my life. Thanks to all my students over the many years; I learned a lot from you, too. www.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com About the Reviewers Oliver Peters has worked in the television, film, and entertainment industries since 1970. He has accrued a diverse range of experience in all facets of production, post-production, instructional development/design, and project management. His credits include national and international TV and film projects, which have won awards such as the NATPE Iris, Telly, ITS Monitor, a national Addy, and others. During his career, he worked for numerous years at Century III, the resident post-production facility at Universal Studios, Florida, which he helped design and manage. He currently owns his own post-production services company, working as an Independent Project Manager, Editor, and Colorist. He is also a contributing Editor to Digital Video magazine and the Creative Planet websites, writing and lecturing about editing and post-production technologies and products. Other books that he has reviewed, include The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction, Steve Hullfish, Focal Press; Mastering MultiCamera Techniques, M. Jacobson, Focal Press; and The Avid Handbook, Steven Bayes and Greg Staten, Focal Press. Michael Phillips is an award-winning Filmmaker, Producer, Editor, and Industry Technologist. Michael's contributions to the industry have been for the co-invention and design of Avid's Media Composer, Film Composer, and Symphony product lines, which offer professional digital online and offline editing, and finishing, earning him a 1994 Academy Award® for Scientific and Engineering Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1999, Michael and Avid were rewarded with an Oscar® for their continued efforts in enhancing and developing the Avid Film Composer. That same year, Michael was recognized with a Massachusetts Innovator of the Year award. www.ebook777.comwww.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com His producing and editing credits include, "Johnny Slade's Greatest Hits", "Patriots", "Jack in the Box" for editing, and "Leon" (The Professional), "Milk", and the award-winning documentary "Cinematographer Style" for digital post consultation and supervision; and recently completing the DI conform on "The Iceman". Michael has lectured around the world on the ever-changing nature of digital processes, spoken at industry forums, and conducted workshops on digital post-production. He co-wrote the book "Digital Filmmaking, The Changing Art Form of Making Movies". He has been awarded over 10 patents from the United States Patent Office for digital synchronization of picture and sound, and other editing technologies pertaining to 24 frame editing, as well as compositing, interactive media (transmedia), and surround sound technologies. Michael is currently developing tools for story discovery. Michael was chosen as the Post Supervisor for the Sundance Institute Director's Summer Labs 2012. Michael is currently CTO of Cineworks, a full service film and digital cinema facility with locations in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Miami, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport. Michael is directing research and development of new technology solutions for the digital production process extending workflow consulting to Cineworks clients as well as industry manufacturers on workflow. Roger Shufflebottom is an Editor living and working in the United Kingdom. He started editing documentaries and TV series on 16-mm film and got his hands on an Avid system for the first time in 1992. He proudly says that he never did any tape-to-tape editing professionally! He became one of the first cohort of UK Avid Certified Instructors in the 1990s and has since run training courses in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the USA. He has written Media Composer, NewsCutter, Unity and Interplay training courseware for Avid in the U.K, and Focal Press published his book Video Editing with Avid in 2001. He now teaches editing in the Media School at Bournemouth University, Dorset, U.K. www.it-ebooks.info Free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.PacktPub.com Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more You might want to visit www.PacktPub.com for support files and downloads related to your book. Did you know that Packt offers eBook versions of every book published, with PDF and ePub files available? You can upgrade to the eBook version at www.PacktPub.com and as a print book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the eBook copy. Get in touch with us at [email protected] for more details. 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